What happened
Feb 6, 2008 Blogging
I upgraded wordpress from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3 because there are security holes in 2.3.2 and also because wordpress reminds you to upgrade and I got sick of looking at the upgrade reminder. And somehow this upgrade, which changed out three or four tiny files, wiped out my database. So I lost most of January and what I had of February so far.
Ok, so I have a backup of my database and I went to restore it but for some reason it wouldn’t take. (That’s why my theme looks funky and my sidebars are empty.) I have no idea why and the wordpress geeks have no idea why. These are the kinds of things that shouldn’t happen. Because I have about 50 megs of entries on here it took a long, long time to strip the exported file down to something manageable to import. (About two hours to be exact. And this was after I did some handy-dandy footwork to get the content, which would take too long to explain but of which I am very proud because I had to get quite creative to figure out a work-around.) Then because I hadn’t backed up since 1/7, I had to go and swipe my other content from livejournal even though there was at least a week the crossposter wouldn’t work that I’m missing and I was too tired to strip out the “this post originally appeared on” header. I also lost all of your lovely comments.
But at least most of it is here.
And now I’ll back my database up once a month. (Wordpress has a plugin to do this but my site is so big that it sometimes times out. I messed with a setting and hopefully it’ll work now.)
I swear — I’m having the worst blog luck so far this year. I think my horoscope said something about that…
February 6th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Yeep. Have you considered sacrificing a fatted calf to the blog gods?
February 6th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Oh, I’m so sorry!! After I saw the site was down I worried a bit, but I knew you were going to tell us what happened later. But I kept thinking of you all day long… And I have to remember that I used to rank close to 170 in comments (that’s probably gone too, right? I enjoyed it while it lasted — my “fame” as one of your top commenters ;). Well, I hope things get better as the year goes by, but it is a bit unnerving to have so much happen to your blog in such a short time!
February 6th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
your feed history on bloglines goes back forever and a day. Do you want a c/p of the missing time blogs?
February 7th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Hopefully this is it for the year, no? eesh.
February 7th, 2008 at 8:38 am
I’m not updating on this one then. It was only for those who allow people to register on their blogs and I don’t so it’s pointless for me anyway.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:19 am
I am just glad you’re back!